Fellowships and Grants

SNUAC supports research projects which integrate regional research and thematic research. SNUAC is especially devoted to supporting research focused on the regions and themes which have remained underexplored despite their increasing importance in national and global contexts. In 2015, SNUAC continued to sponsor outstanding Asia-related basic research through various funding programs including the SNUAC Research Grant, SNUAC Series in Asian Studies, Dissertation Writing Fellowship, and Outstanding Dissertation Award.

SNUAC is planning on organizing an annual research roundtable, “Asian Studies in SNUAC,” organized by Department of Research and Development of SNUAC, where scholars who participated in the Asia Basic Research Program share their research outcomes and progress. The roundtable will provide scholars engaged in Asia research with a glimpse at international trends of Asian studies and an opportunity to deliberate on a future direction for independent knowledge production. We expect this annual roundtable to contribute to our vision of furnishing building blocks for integrative research of regions and themes. SNUAC aims to pave the way for overcoming the historical and structural dependence of knowledge production on the West so Asian scholars can pursue independent scholarship.

＊ Chulhyun Park (Kookmin Univ.) | State-Society Relations in the Northeast Region of China: Focusing on the Old Industrial City and the Typical Danwei System
＊ Heeryang Na (Pukyung Nat`l Univ.) | WTO Dispute Settlements of ASEAN: Focusing on the Characteristics and Comparative Analysis according to Changes in Global Trade Order
＊ Paehwan Seol (Chonnam Nat`l Univ.) | Quriltai: The Heart of Power of the Mongol Great Khans and New Time and Places in Eurasia
＊ Soonchan Park (Kongju Nat`l Univ.) | Evolution of Production Networks in Asia: Comparative Advantage and Labor Share

2017 SNUAC Dissertation Writing Fellowship

＊ Daewook Kim (Dept. of Sociology) | The Diffusion of the ‘Business and Human Rights’ Norms in China
＊ Hyeonjung Chae (Dept. of Anthropology) | Multiple Lives of the Border: ASEAN Economic Community, Developing Border Area and Expanding Trading across the Border
＊ Jiayan Yun (Grad. School of Environmental Studies) | Cultural Politics in the Gardens of Suzhou: Social Change and the Expansion of Garden Culture during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties
＊ Jiyoung Lee (Dept. of Asian History) | The New Policy and its Influences on Banners in Jilin Province
＊ Sehyung Won (Grad. School of Environmental Studies) | The Impact of Road Infrastructure Development on Communities and Urban Form Changes in Cities of Emerging Countries: A Case Study of Danang, Vietnam

• Youngsook Kweon (The Center for Social Science) | The Dynamics of Political Democracy and Labor: Comparative Study on East Asian Model
• Sungbom Lee (School of Humanities and International Cultures, Sogang Univ.) | A cross-cultural study of communicating emotions of happiness in Korea, Japan, and Singapore
• Kyungtaek Yim (Dept. of Japanese Language & Literature, Chonbuk Nat’l Univ.) | The Formation of Japanese Nation-state and Reading Community in East Asia
• Sunny Yoon (Dept. of Media & Communication Studies, Hanyang Univ.) | Asian Identity: Cultural hybridity or cultural resistance

2016 SNUAC Dissertation Writing Fellowship

• Seoin Baek (Graduate School of Innovation and Technology Management, KAIST) | Integrative Research on Asian Innovation Model: Trilateral Comparative analysis on Technology Innovation, Finn Strategy and Industrial Policy, Future Strategy of Korea, Japan, China’s Automobile Industry
• Yuseok Han (Dept. of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, Chunbuk Nat’l Univ.) | Ethnic Migrants’ Hybrid Identities on the Border: An Anthropological
Research on the Kachin People in Thailand
• Jaeyoung Lee (Graduate School of International Studies) | The Political Economy of Local Government’s Institutional Innovations in China
• Kyungyun Moon (Dept. of Anthropology) | Between “Spouses of Taiwanese” and “Compatriots”: An Ethnographic Study of Social Network among Chinese Spouses in Taiwan
• Ragyeom Wi (Interdisciplinary program in Gender Studies) | A Study on the Labor Market Participation and Family Life of Marriage-migrant Women in South Korea from the Perspective of Citizenship

2016 SNUAC Dissertation Award

• Eunsook Jee (Dept. of Anthropology) | Family Relationship and Gender Order in Contemporary Japan through the Case of Hikon
• Yanghee Kim (Dept. of Women’s Studies, Ewha Womans Univ.) | Recipient Women Agents in Korean Official Development Assistance MCH Project-Based on Brith Spacing Campaign and Abortion in Laos
• Sunwha Lee (Dept. of Anthropology) | Flying Chickens on the Grasslands: The Eco-Politics of Grassland Restoration in Inner Mongolia, China

• Eunmee Kim et al. (Dept. of Communication) | A Cultural History of Structural Changes in Chinese Cultural Industries.
• Chanwook Park (Dept. of Political Science and Int’l Relations) | Recent General Elections for the State Legislature and Prospects for Democracy: Results and Significance
of 2016 Korean National Assembly Election in Comparison with 2015 Turkish Elections
• Jungyul Sohn et al. (Dept. of Geography) | Asia viewed through Networks: From the Perspectives of Social Sciences
• Wookhee Shin et al. (Dept. of Political Science and Int’l Relations) | Global Cold War and East Asia
• Sangin Yoon et al. (Dept. of Asian Languages and Civilizations) | The Movement of Cultures across East Asia in the 1920s-1930s
• Keunsik Jung et al. (Dept. of Sociology) | 2016 SNUAC Translation Series on Mordern History of Asia
• Youngdal Cho (Dept. of Social Studies Education) | Reform in High Education under the Changing World of East Asia
• Kyungchul Jou et al. (Dept. of Western History) | The Colonial University and Derivative Appropriation of Orientalism: An Inquiry into Books of Western Orientalism
collected by the Keijo Imperial University Library
• Yeyong Choi (Institute of Health & Environment) | Dangerous Trade of Asbestos Industry in Asia
• Baegeui Hong (Dept. of Social Welfare) | Family in Asia– Has the revolution of Family in Asia begun?

2015 SNUAC Series in Asian Studies

• Jonghwan Ko (Division of Int’l and Area Studies, Pukyong Nat’l Univ.) | International Migration in East Asia and Its Economic Impact
• Junghee Park (Global China Institute, Kyungsung Univ.) | A Study on Aspect of the Reconstruction of Ancient city Cultural Identity in China: focused on cultural
texts and landscape
• Yeongseop Rhee (Graduate School of Int’l Studies) | East Asian Economic Integration and Inter-Korean Cooperation
• Jaemin Lee (School of Law) | A Surge of FTAs in East Asian Countries and Dispute Settlement Mechanism– Unique Characteristics, Inherent Limitations and Areas
of Improvement

SNUAC sponsors the translation of distinguished history books written in Asia. This effort began in 2014, and five volumes of Asian history are scheduled to be translated in 2015. By translating history textbooks representative of each Asian country and important work that can contribute to regional research, SNUAC aims to promote deeper understanding of the Asian region.

SNUAC was officially launched in February 2009 in the backdrop of the Asian Era that demands enhanced understanding of various Asian countries by producing new knowledge. To pursue its mission to become a hub of Asian studies, SNUAC research projects are divided by different regions and themes. As of 2018, SNUAC has five regional research centers, seven thematic research programs, and the Korea Social Science Data Archive(KOSSDA)...